Verdict:
Watching paint dry is definitely more interesting
Review :A Hook that fails to hold
Radio Four, 9am If you find engineering about as exciting as
watching paint dry, then try tuning into Adam Hart-Davis new five part series, which explores some of the most ambitious civil engineering projects currently under construction in the UK.
Radio Choice
Catherine Jones wonders if the latest TV wheeze - a show called
Watching Paint Dry - is more dangerous to our collective intellect than it first appears.
Where will Watching Paint Dry end? Think gloss or satinwood? Heritage or contemporary?
It's about as interesting as
watching paint dry - except that really is all that happens in the latest reality show.
The worst TV ever?
SURREY University scientists got very excited
watching paint dry. It's the kind of thing they do down there.
Alternative to clubbing
Watching grass grow If
watching paint dry sounds too exhilarating, you could take a leaf out of Helen Southall's book.
The world's worst jobs; READ THIS AND WORK MAY SEEM MORE TOLERABLE TODAY
As a drama, it's not quite as bad as
watching paint dry, but with a lack of confrontation the moments of heartfelt regret are too self-absorbed to engage the viewer's emotions.
Summer February (15)
And chairman Philip Crawford admitted: "It's better than
watching paint dry - just."
SMELLYVISION
WHAT'S wrong with
watching paint dry? I'd rather visit an exhibition that's worth talking about than look at a dusty old painting.
YOUR LETTERS: Better than Louvre
Two hours of rambling rubbish later, I wished I'd been
watching paint dry. Even if it was an unexciting colour like grey or cream.
BACON AT THE MOVIES: Bloom & gloom..
But the fun wore off quite soon afterwards and by the end it had become so exhausting that I thought I'd rather be
watching paint dry.''
Marathon effort by Dunsdon
Then the dust settled and suddenly
watching paint dry seemed like a more entertaining option.
Culture: TV Choice
Remem-ber Watercolour Challenge?'' Ap Twps: ``All right,
watching paint dry might not be a runner.
That's typical: Reality TV - there's a way to cash in but it must be dignified
So if it's a choice between a halfman-half-ape who thinks a good night's fun is haffa-stout down t'Rovers wi' Em'ly Bishop - then a night in
watching paint dry wins every time!
Television: Sally's all knotted up!; Coronation Street (Sunday, ITV1, 8pm)
AFTER another draw that was like
watching paint dry, England came out last of all but, thankfully, avoided the traditional Group of Death.
SWEDE AND SOUR.. BUT WE QUALIFY